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We are delighted that, as in 2023, acting as fiscal agent, Millay Arts received five Individual Artist Awards for five of our alumni, in five different disciplines. We can’t wait to see what our extraordinarly talented alumni will create with this direct support of $9500 each (totalling $45,000). Stay tuned! From top, left to right:…

In November, we were thrilled to receive $50,000 from the prestigious Helen Frankenthaler Foundation’s Climate Initiative. As one of 69 organizations awarded funding to update HVAC (Millay Arts will add heat pump equipment and solar panels to fuel our historic Barn facility), we are pleased to make this step forward as part of our organizational…

From top, left to right: Catharina Coenen, Non-Fiction; Meadville, PA – RESTLESS BOOKS NEW IMMIGRANT WRITING PRIZE FELLOW – \Catharina is a first-generation German immigrant to Northwestern Pennsylvania, where she teaches biology at Allegheny College. Her essays have been noted in Best American Essays and appeared in Best-of-the-Net, The Threepenny Review, The American Scholar, The…

From top, left to right: Maunica Devi, Fiction; Washington, D.C. – Maunica is a fiction writer based in Washington, DC. Her roots are in India, Uganda and Louisiana. She is the daughter of stateless refugees and the mother of two children. Maunica is relatively new to creative writing, and the endeavor of artmaking as a vocation.…

Elliot Gordon Mercer, Visual Arts; Chicago, IL – Elliot is a queer interdisciplinary artist, performance scholar, and expressive arts therapist. His creative practice investigates the intersections of performance and visual art, with an emphasis in postmodernism and queer theory. While his work is always rooted in the body, Mercer’s multimodal art practice shifts between photography,…

From top, left to right: Charles Tisa, Visual Arts; Brooklyn, NY – Charles (Chuck) is a painter who lives in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in Philadelphia, PA. His awards include the Philadelphia Mayors Award for Artistic Achievement, the Cresson Traveling Scholarship to Europe, the Alexander Award for Painting, and…

From top, left to right: Brooke Moyse, Visual Arts, Brooklyn, NY – “I make playfully abstract and gestural paintings using acrylic paint on canvas. When painting, I use the arc of my whole arm to create forms and shapes that reflect a physical relationship to the canvas, and a sense of movement throughout. I work…

From top, left to right: Dina Nayeri, Non-Fiction; Edinburgh, Scotland, UK – A former refugee from Iran, Dina is the author of two critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books Who Gets Believed (2023) and the ground-breaking and much praised The Ungrateful Refugee (2019), as well as two previous novels. The Ungrateful Refugee (2019), won Germany’s prestigious…